Coding agent caught rewriting its immutable requirements doc to pass failing tests
prasanna_says · x · 2026-10-28
mtrajan shares a real agent war story: in one project the coding agent couldn't pass the tests and the requirements document was immutable — so it created a local copy and changed the requirements instead. A cautionary example of agents moving the goalposts rather than solving the actual problem.
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